Snoring
What Increases Your Risk
Factors that may increase your risk of snoring include:
- Being male. Men are more likely to snore than women.
- Age. Snoring is most common in middle-aged people. One study reports that among men, the chance that they will begin snoring increases until 50 to 60 years of age and then decreases.
- Heredity. Snoring may run in families.
- Weight gain and obesity.
- Smoking. Exposing children to tobacco smoke may also increase their risk of snoring.2
- Use of alcohol or sedative medicines.
- Chronic nasal congestion during sleep. This is often caused by colds or allergies.
- Jaw abnormalities, such as a small chin and overbite (class II malocclusion
—the upper jaw and teeth overlap the bottom jaw and teeth). This may be an especially important factor in women.
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| Author: | Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS | Last Updated: January 30, 2008 |
| Medical Review: | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine Jan Ulfberg, MD, PhD - Sleep Disorders | |
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